“Developers have been asking for this and we are delivering it.” “Soma” Somasegar told us, the company’s aim with Visual Studio was to make good on its promise to deliver a tool that allows developers to target all the popular platforms. “When you think about Visual Studio, the core theme is that VS 2015 is a cross-platform tool set,” he said. Visual Studio Code, the standalone code editor for Windows, Mac and Linux, has seen half a million downloads since its launch three months ago. More than 3.2 million developers have now registered for the Visual Studio Online services. Visual Studio Community, for example, the much-improved free version of the software for non-enterprise users, has now been downloaded 5 million times since its launch seven months ago. Visual Studio 2015 (VS 2015) is now available for download (and purchase), but Team Foundation Server 2015 - part of Microsoft’s online services for development teams - will remain in its release candidate phase until next month.Īs part of today’s announcement, Microsoft also released a couple of new download numbers for various tools in the Visual Studio ecosystem. After a year of previews and one release candidate, Microsoft today officially launched the latest version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) together with an update to its.

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